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- Color Spread: Mugiwara crew are swinging in the sky, with a big rainbow at the background and seagulls fliying in the sky.
- Speaker talks about King Elizabelio II and Dagama, they are fighting.
- We could see a little picture with Elizabelio II, Dagama and their army fighting, like a flashback.
- Elizabelio II punch called "King Punch" compete with Yonkou´s.
- Bellamy Vs Tank Lepanto. Lepanto attacks Bellamy with a big iron ball with spikes.
- Bellamy avoids the attack with Bane Bane no Mi powers and counter-attack with "Spring Death Knock" (it´s like Luffy´s Gomu Gomu no Pistoru with Bellamy´s power).
- Lepanto´s attack hits another fighters, they fall in the water.
- Some little fighting fishes, called "Little Tougyo", attacks them. "Little Tougyo" have bull horns (now I know why Oda used Corrida Colosseum name lol).
- Abdullah and Jeet fight together. Abdullah distracts other fighters and Jeet attacks them from behind.
- Hack fights with a big guy with a big spiked mace. That gut attacks Hack but he stops the mace with one hand.
- Hack uses "Yon Sen Mai Gawara Sei Ken", his Gyojin Karate level is 100 (remember Kuroobi´s level was 40).
- Now we see Blue Gilly, he´s Longleg Tribe member (I think he´s Bruce Lee tribute).
- Blue Gilly uses Jao Kune Do style (or something like that lol) it´s like Kickboxing. He defeats some guys Dagama sent to fight.
- Ricky fights against other gladiators and defeats them easily.
- Seems Ricky covers his face becouse he´s a very important person.
- Bartolomeo is stretched out on the ground seeing fights lol
- Luffy and Cadenvish talk in the stands. Cadenvish shows Luffy his own wanted poster, Luffy looks the other way lol
- Don Chinjao appears and discovers Luffy´s true identity, Cavendish's suprise.
- Don Chinjao asks Luffy if Garp is doing fine. Garp nearly killed Don Chinjao long ago when he was a pirate.
- The old feud will be resolved in his grandson's generation.

B block starts, 138 men battle royal.
Although what Dagama is doing isn't fair, it's not against the rules to team up.

Apparnetly King Elizabello's punch is so powerful, he's put a massive hole in the enemy fortress.
But there's on problem... it takes an entire hour of preparation for the king to throw one punch out.
It's Prodence's ultimate weapon, that can only be fired once in a single battlefield.
Dagama thinks the "King Punch" could knock out even a Yonkou if it ever lands on one.
Dagama asks his lord if he's ready, to which Elizabello says he's ready to throw it out at any time.

Bellamy asks why Lepanto, who is an army commander of Dressrosa, thinks it's ok to lend hand to military advisor of another country.
Lepanto answers money is what makes the world go around, he'd rather gain money at his feet rather than chase a dream.
Bellamy laughs, saying hearing that hurts (as he shared the same attitude in the past)

Lepanto swings his massive chained spiked ball and knocks three contestants into the water, while Bellamy counters him with Spring Death-Knock (a Gomu Gomu Pistol like spring punch)
There are "Little Battle-fish" swimming in the waters, attacking the fallen contestants.

Abdulla and Jeet are fighting a legion of fodder gladiators, Abdulla howels to grab their attention, while Jeet slices them from behind.
Meanwhile, The fishman Karate master and also user of Fishman Jujitsu, Hack, uses 4000 kawara seiken to punch out a large contestant who mocked the fishman.
Hack is friend of Jinbe, and feels just like Jinbe is a hope for men and fishmen understanding each other, he hopes to find a way of friendship through exchange of fists.
A true Karate-ka!

Blue Gilly is a martial artist who hails from the long-leg tribe. His style of martial artis is Jao-kun Do.
(Obviously a Bruce Lee reference)
He uses his legs like whip, and knocks many fodders out of his way.

One mysterious gladiator stands out... the helmeted "Former" Gladiator Ricky.
No one recognizes him, he's a newcomer to the arena. Yet, with only a single sword at his disposal, he knocks out multiple combatants.
And old spectator tells a nearby toy man, that he vaguely remembers someone who fights like that, but for the life of him cannot remember his name.

(GEE I WONDER WHO THAT IS, ODA. GEE. THANKS FOR LIKE, MAKING IT OBVIOUS OR ANYTHING. I guess we'll know the mystery of the statue sooner than we thought lol)

Bartolomeo is lying there on the edge just chilling. He just watches the whole place in chaos, instead of jumping in to fight.

Cavendish says Barto is another one of those annoying rookies.
He's called the Cannibal because he acts like a douche. (mocking people in Japanese is expressed as "eating people")
Cavendish is looking through a book containing wanted posters of the "worst generation".
Luffy asks him why not forgive them already, but Caven is adamant he'll kill them.
He figured with a big tournament like this, at least one of them will be here...
But just like Burgess did, you can hide your identity in this tournament. He figures he'll just wait till one of them wins through..
Luffy is sweating bullets hearing this, hahahaha.

-While still talking, Chinjao attacks Luffy with a headbutt
-Back in the good old days, Chinjao's bounty was over 500 million
-Cavendish whips out one of the most prominent meitou ("famous blades," like the ones Tashigi is after), "Durandal," and stops Chinjao
-In the end, Chinjao is held back by his nakama (presumably Boo and Sai)
-After a comedy routine, Luffy sees his chance to get away and does so
-But a rumor is spreading that Luffy is around

Chinjao tells Luffy Garp was indeed the Devil to pirates back in the days
No matter how many decades pass, the wounds he took will not heal.
Cavendish asks if what he's saying is true, and Luffy tries to convince him he's "Lucy"
Chinjao says he'll have the grandson pay for this feud, to which Luffy tells him to go take it out on gramps, not him.

Cavendish puts a hand on his sword, saying if he really is Luffy, he'll kill him here and now.
Chinjao says if only he had realized about Dragon earlier, Luffy would never have been born.
He attacks with a headbutt, crushing the floor.

Fighters nearby notices Chinjao wrecking the place, and comments on how in his prime Chinjao was a 500million berry bounty.
Chinjao grows hair as he goes for another attack at Luffy.
Cavendish draws his sword telling Chinjao to back off, Luffy is his target. The sword is Durandal, one of the best swords in the world.
He counter attacks Chinjao's headbutt with Biken (Beautiful Sword) Blue Bird, a piercing attack, at Chinjao's head.
Chinjao's head is so tough, it actually stops the sword attack without letting it penetrate.

Chinjao's hair is gone again... he attacks with rapid secession of punches, and Caven ponders he won't win this fight by going easy.
Luffy jump on top of Chinjao, and punches him into the ground. It stops the old man, but doesn't hurt him at all.
Apparently Chnjao has split an arctic land with his headbutt in the past...!

Chinjao gets up, this time growing massive beard... and looming over the two young combatants like an enraged demon.
He says the two are pretty good, but nowhere near enough training to handle him.
Cavendish acknowledges Lucy must be Luffy, from seeing his strength.

Caven tells Luffy he's getting hated everywhere he goes, stealing his popularity, being born a grandchild of the devil, etc
Luffy is like "NONE of that is my fault!!!" lol
As Don Chinjao starts to go all out to take out both the younglings, his grand children come to stop him.
They don't know why their gramps is so mad, but tells him if they get disqualified now, their "true mission" will be hindered.

Luffy runs off and Cavendish goes to search for him. He plans to kill Luffy before the fight starts
Sai and Boo tells their grandfather if he wants to kill him, do so in the arena... they're in the same block after all.

As Luffy ponders what to do, rumor spreads about the Straw hat in the tournament.

Meanwhile in Block B
Tank Lepanto is taken out by Jeet and Abdulla.
There are only 30 people left in the arena. Degama is waiting a little longer to unleash the King Punch, he is confident it can take out anyone left standing. Blue Gilly is fighting Ricky one on one.
Jeet and Abdulla looks around for their next victim, when Bellamy comes to them and Stab both of their feet with knives and nail them to the ground.
He then grabs both of them by their mouth, and snaps their spine (or neck).
The crowd goes wild at Bellamy's cruelty.

The crowd cheers Hack for his immense strength, taking out competitors easily with his Fishman Karate.
Bartolomeo is taking a piss int he water, as the crowd watches in horror.
Hack approach him to attack him with 4000 tile fist, as he is dishonoring those who are fighting seriously.
At first Barto acts all worried but as Hack punch him, his fist is stopped by an invisible wall and he breaks his arm.
Barto laughs, as he was just pretending to panic.

Luffy doesn't recognize what just happened, and wonders what Barto just did.

Bartolomeo kicks Hack right in the jaw, bringing him down. As the crowd watch in horror, only 24 contestants left.
Blue Gilly kicks Ricky in the helmet, breaks part of it and the armor.
He laughs at Ricky, as Ricky was fighting with a dull blade unable to even cut.

Ricky lays on the ground, as he utters his old age has caught up to him...
He thinks to himself how he hates this cheering of the crowd... and how he hates Doflamingo.

Blue Gilly starts taking out the fodders surrounding King Elizaberro, and Dagama turns on them as well.
Gilly was actually working with Dagama from the start, he was tasked with taking out the allies at the end.

Dagama plans to take out Gilly while he is busy taking out the grunts... but Gilly senses the danger, and kciks Dagama away.
He says he never trusted Dagama in the first place!

Meanwhile, Bartolomeo is destroying Bellamy. Bellamy wonders what kind of ability he is using...!
He keeps taking damage reflected back at himself.

As the left over grunts and Blue Gilly approach King Elizabello, he readies his King Punch.
The spectators realize what he's about to do, and run from the area.
Blue rushes to the king to snap his neck with "Shooting Moon"!

Bellamy has found a way to deal with Bartolomeo... instead of punchig him, he grabs onto him with his spring-powered arm, the grip is so strong, Barto cannot fling him off. As Bellamy gets ready, he senses impending doom coming from behind!
Barto looks ahead and yells "What the hell is that!?"

two page spread of KING PUNCH!

The blast hits everyone on the ring, knocking out everyone but the King.
Bellamy and Blue Gilly are knocked out in the water as well.
Luffy almost falls from his place lol

But one man still stands in the ring... it's Bartolomeo!
He put up a square barrier around himself. He's a Barrier-man who ate the Barrier-Barrier (Bari-bari) fruit.

He punches out his barrier as a wall of attack at King Elizabello, knocking him out in one hit.

The winner is.... Bartolomeo!

Bartolomeo: Hehahahaha! All of you, go to hell!
He then mutters he'll bring the Mera-Mera fruit to "that person"... assuming, someone he works for!

The toy soldier has been plotting to destroy the factory as well.
He wishes to save those who work there...

But he warns that this can lead to destruction of this entire country.
He tells Franky to follow him if he's ready to face Doflamingo. He'll tell him the all of the tragic secrets of Dressrosa.

Chapter 709
“King Punch!!”
Cover Story:
“Caribou’s Kehihihihi in the New World”
“Volume 28”
“Run away quickly, Gabull, you can’t fight any longer”
Page 2:
Blurb: “A real mysterious guy!!”
Announcer: “…!!! Hack has been beaten!!!”
Lady: “Kyahh”
Luffy: “What was that?”
Announcer: “Fishman Karate Master, “100th Degree Black Belt Hack”!!!”
“Even though we were supporting him, he lost to that chicken-headed bastard!!!”
Girl: “Gats-san, you’ve got to report this without bias!!”
Gats: “It’s still hard to say who the winner will be!!!”
“24 contestants remain in B-block!!!”
Page 3:
Barto: “Let’s end this thing…!!”
Bellamy: “Such cheek…”
King sfx: *shi* *shi*
Dagama: “Gamahahaha… everyone’s good and wounded!! …This is the perfect time”
“Hey, Blue Gilly!!?”
Blue Gilly: “Hyao!!!”
Page 4:
Gats: “Skilled fighters are falling, one after the other!!”
“Even the mysterious gladiator, Ricky, won’t see his ambitions come to light!!”
“That Blue Gilly is fierce!!!”
Blue Gilly: “What did you hope to cut with a bladeless sword!?”
“Mister!”
Ricky: “… …Haa …haa”
“…Looks like I can’t win… against the ravages of time…”
“I hate this cheering…!!!”
“Doflamingo!!!”
“I hate you…!!!”
Fighter: “The numbers have really thinned, thanks to Dagama’s plan”
“When he gives the sign, we’ll break this formation!!”
“Now, we just have to let the true winner…”
Page 5:
Blue Gilly: “Hyao!!!”
Fighters: “Uwahh!!!”
Fighter: “Don’t lose your positions!! How were you brought down from behind!?”
Fighters: “Chyoeahhh!!!”
“Guahh!!”
“Eh!!?”
Fighter: “…!! Dagama… you!!!”
Dagama: “Good work, you naïve dogs!!”
“If it’s compensation you’re looking for, you’ll get it later!!”
Sfx: *shi* *shi*
Blue Gilly: “I was assigned as the “dog hunter”…”
Fighters: “Blue Gilly!?”
Page 6:
Dagama: “Hmmph!! Brainless fighters will never be more than pawns on the battlefield!!”
“I’m leaving this to you, long-leg man!!”
Blue Gilly: “Hyao!!!”
Fighter: “Dagama, you schemer!!”
Dagama: “And with your back turned to me, I’ll be the one to end you”
“Blue Gilly!!!”
“Bogiiii!!!”
Blue Gilly: “Hyaoo!!!”
Page 7:
Dagama: “Gohhh!!! Bastard… you betrayed me…!!!”
“Blue Gi…”
“Gyahhh!!!”
Gats: “And the strategist, Dagama, is also out!!!”
Dagama: “Ahhhhh”
Blue Gilly: “From the very start, I knew that a fishy character like you…”
“Wasn’t someone to be trusted!!!”
Crowd: “Nice job, long-leg man!!!”
“Blue Gillyyyy <3”
Gats: “Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring!!”
Lady: “Noooo!!!”
Page 8:
Gats: “Our dear Bellamy!!! He’s on his last legs!!!”
Crowd: “Bellamy-sama!!!”
Gats: “His opponent… it’s that damn guy!!!”
Sfx: *drip* *drip*
Bellamy: “This guy… what the hell kind of…
“ability user is he…!!?”
Barto: “Hehahaha”
Luffy: “Bellamy…”
Crowd: “It’s just like with Hack! Bellamy took damage from his own attack!!”
“You’re really pissing us off, Bartolomeo!!”
Luffy: “Hey, Bellamy!!! Hang in there!!!”
Page 9:
Blue Gilly: “Well, what now, Elizabello…?”
“There’s nothing as unreliable as a king out in the open…”
“We’ve all just been itching to take your head”
Sfx: *shi*
King: “Fufufu”
“Dagama did well…”
Sfx: *shi*
“All that remains is to let it fly!!!”
“You were the ones who protected me with that formation…!!”
“There’s nothing as dangerous as an unsheathed blade…!!! Am I wrong, brat?”
Guy: “Something’s worrying me…”
“This king of Prodense…”
“I heard once, in the news”
“That he annihilated an enemy fortress with a single punch!!...”
Other guy: “Don’t be stupid! He must have used a weapon or something, right!?”
“But, on the off-chance that it’s true…!!!”
Page 10:
“He could throw a punch powerful enough”
“to blow away even the section of the audience in front of him!!”
Other guy: “Eh!?”
“…There’s no way something like that could happen!!”
Gats: “There’s something unsettling in the air…!!”
“He’s kept quiet in the middle of that formation, but…”
“The King is about to make his move!!!”
King: “Kinnnnng!!!”
Audience: “Run away!!!”
Gats: “Was that incident from a while back really true!?”
Fighter: “Take down Elizabello!!”
Page 11:
Blue Gilly: “Out of the way! I’ll snap his neck!!!”
“Shooting Moon!!!”
Barto: “Ugehh what a tenacious bastard!!”
“What the hell’s this? Let go!!!”
Bellamy: “Hahha, let go? Don’t make light of the power of springs…”
Barto: “What’s that now?”
Blue Gilly: “Hyao!!!”
Ricky: “The Prodense King…!!”
Page 12:
King: “Puuuuuuuunnnnnnch!!!!”
Page 13:
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Page 14:
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Page 15:
Sfx: *tremble*
Gats: “What… what terrifying power!!!”
“Nothing in the ring could have possibly survived that!!!”
“…!! Bellamy!!! Blue Gilly!!!”
Lady: “Bellamy-sama!!!”
“Every one of the top candidates to win it all has fallen!!!”
Luffy: “Cough, cough!!”
“What a punch…!!”
“Never seen anything like that…!!”
Gats: “…!! In the battle royale of B-block…”
“The winner, hailing from the Kingdom of Prodense, is…”
Guy: “Hey, look over there!!”
Gats: “Hmm??”
“There’s someone else!!”
Page 16:
Guy: “The reason that section of the audience wasn’t blown away…”
“Is that he was protecting them!!”
Barto: “Hehahahahaha…”
““Barrier”!!”
“If someone twists their fingers like this, they can make a barrier!!”
“Even snot-nosed kids know that!”
“TN: Barto’s taunt is based on a bit of traditional Japanese playground culture” (ßNOTE TO EDITOR- please include this in the margin<3)
“I ate the “Bari Bari no Mi””
“So I’m a “barrier man”…!!!”
Page 17:
Barto: “ “Barrier Crash”!!!”
Audience: “Gyahhh!!!”
Gats: “Guahh!!! “The Fighting King”…”
“Elizabello the Second, is no longer able to fight!!! …!!”
“Eh… the winner of B-block is… dammit…”
Page 18:
Gats: “Bartolomeo!!!”
Barto: “Hehahaha!! You can all just go to hell!!!”
Audience: “Gyahh!!”
“Ewww!! Why did he have to win!?”
Barto: “The “Mera Mera no Mi” will definitely be going to *that* person…!!!”
Luffy: “…That weird guy won…!!”
Page 19:
Franky: “…Ok, so you’re also…”
One-leg: “Keep it down!!!”
Text: “Inside the Colosseum: Passages to Audience Seating”
Franky: “You’re also plotting to destroy the factory!?”
One-leg: “Indeed I am…!! My comrades and I have been moving along steadily with the preparations!!”
Franky: “Just tell me where it is!! I’ll bring it down it in an instant!!”
One-leg: “I can’t allow that!! There are some who work in the factory who we aim to rescue!!”
“But our plan is one that could lead to the collapse of this entire country!!”
“If you possess the gall and the fortitude to stand against Doflamingo…”
“I will tell you everything there is to know about this tragic country, “Dressrosa”!!!”
Blurb: “What the…?”